On Tuesday, Mic senior political reporter Emily Singer made waves on Twitter by tweeting out a photo from the Oval Office, originally released by The New York Times. She explained that the photo showed now-indicted Russian spy Marina Butina in the Oval Office alongside several Russians including foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, as well as President Trump.
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To her credit, when notified of the error, Singer quickly corrected the record:
The rush to link Russian collusion with the Trump administration is growing wearisome. It’s also granting credibility to Trump’s claims that he’s being unfairly targeted by a malicious media hell-bent on destroying him. Members of the media would do well to check their work before running to Twitter to “own” Trump.
